Australian Court Sends Rapist Away Unhappy

What really sucks about being a rape survivor is that our biggest wins are only ever bittersweet.  Because at the end of the day, Bruce Lehrmann still gets away with having raped Brittany Higgins.  And I don't have to say "alleged"!  He can go fuck himself if he wants to sue me.  That's the good news.  Because the judge just said so LOL

What happened here was that there was a rape trial that got skewered by juror misconduct.  It would've had to be started all over again.  And the survivor's mental health precluded that.  So the matter was dropped.

But because the assault took place inside the House of Parliament, and the two people were political operatives, it became a cause celebre.  And the rapist felt like he shouldn't have to be called a rapist in the news after not being punished for rape, because entitlement.  He wanted a crystal clear slate as if she consented, when she was clearly too drunk to have done so.  So he sued.

And then he lost!  LOL! 

CNN:

"The ruling delivers a devastating blow to Lehrmann’s attempt to clear his name. As [Judge] Lee put it in his judgement: “Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.”

MWAH

Meanwhile, there's something horrible about watching the lawyers crow about what a huge win this is for the TV network, blah blah blah.  Because no, it really isn't a huge win.  It's a big pile of shit wherein a woman got raped.  And then after a bunch of public humiliation for her and no prison for him, the rapist got to make a much huger to-do when she again didn't want to.  He actually won again, in a way, by dictating the narrative.

Then again, the actual rape case could be re-brought.  So it was all-around one of the dumbest own-goals in a while.